Rob Ellis
@re-histories.bsky.social
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Standing Orders are back in the news today. If only there was some way to find out what they were/are.
May 21, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Standing Orders are back in the news today. If only there was some way to find out what they were/are.
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Last year, we were delighted to publish Andrew's excellent monograph, 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' as part of the Society's early career book series bit.ly/3Pzjuyk.
'Waterscapes' is available to read, free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social
'Waterscapes' is available to read, free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social
We're delighted to announce two keynote speakers at this year's conference, Professor Kate Giles and Dr Andrew McTominey.
Kate will be speaking on Pickering's Medieval Wall Paintings, while Andrew will discuss Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales.
#ROYS26
Kate will be speaking on Pickering's Medieval Wall Paintings, while Andrew will discuss Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales.
#ROYS26
May 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Last year, we were delighted to publish Andrew's excellent monograph, 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' as part of the Society's early career book series bit.ly/3Pzjuyk.
'Waterscapes' is available to read, free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social
'Waterscapes' is available to read, free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social
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'Protecting what matters': a new government policy paper identifies history as central to social cohesion.
At the same time, history teaching and research, in our schools and universities, is at risk as never before. To ensure cohesion, we must protect what matters: bit.ly/3QyZQCO #skystorians
At the same time, history teaching and research, in our schools and universities, is at risk as never before. To ensure cohesion, we must protect what matters: bit.ly/3QyZQCO #skystorians
'Protecting what matters': a statement from the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, History UK and Historical Association - RHS
The following is a joint statement from the Historical Association, History UK, Institute of Historical Research, and the Royal Historical Society following the most recent meeting of this quartet of ...
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April 28, 2026 at 7:28 AM
'Protecting what matters': a new government policy paper identifies history as central to social cohesion.
At the same time, history teaching and research, in our schools and universities, is at risk as never before. To ensure cohesion, we must protect what matters: bit.ly/3QyZQCO #skystorians
At the same time, history teaching and research, in our schools and universities, is at risk as never before. To ensure cohesion, we must protect what matters: bit.ly/3QyZQCO #skystorians
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#EchoesOfJustice is a new docu-drama by Sue Moffat developed in partnership with @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
#NeverAgain #Belsen #translation #witnes @srebrenicauk.bsky.social @re-histories.bsky.social @roxannetaylorscott.bsky.social @howardtucker.bsky.social @remsrebwestmids.bsky.social
#NeverAgain #Belsen #translation #witnes @srebrenicauk.bsky.social @re-histories.bsky.social @roxannetaylorscott.bsky.social @howardtucker.bsky.social @remsrebwestmids.bsky.social
April 23, 2026 at 10:13 AM
#EchoesOfJustice is a new docu-drama by Sue Moffat developed in partnership with @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
#NeverAgain #Belsen #translation #witnes @srebrenicauk.bsky.social @re-histories.bsky.social @roxannetaylorscott.bsky.social @howardtucker.bsky.social @remsrebwestmids.bsky.social
#NeverAgain #Belsen #translation #witnes @srebrenicauk.bsky.social @re-histories.bsky.social @roxannetaylorscott.bsky.social @howardtucker.bsky.social @remsrebwestmids.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone involved in organising such an interesting day. Nice to catch up with old friends and make some new ones. Great to be able to present as part of an MMU dream team of @lucyorkate.bsky.social @mctom.bsky.social and Sarah Linn. Roll on HAP 27!
We're in Sheffield today to co-host our annual day conference, 'History and Archives in Practice', with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library #HAP26
40+ speakers explore the contributions of history to social and civic identity: bit.ly/4tj8DqW #Skystorians
40+ speakers explore the contributions of history to social and civic identity: bit.ly/4tj8DqW #Skystorians
April 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Thanks to everyone involved in organising such an interesting day. Nice to catch up with old friends and make some new ones. Great to be able to present as part of an MMU dream team of @lucyorkate.bsky.social @mctom.bsky.social and Sarah Linn. Roll on HAP 27!
New, open access publication out now. Co-authored with Dr Alice Brumby journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Outpatients clinics and the 1930 Mental Treatment Act: Patients and practitioners, c.1888–c.1940
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April 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM
New, open access publication out now. Co-authored with Dr Alice Brumby journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
It’s that time again (groan). Nice summary here (via LSE)
March 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
It’s that time again (groan). Nice summary here (via LSE)
Still time to submit abstracts for Life Histories in Mind in Manchester in July. Keynote Prof Catharine Coleborne sshm.org/history-of-m...
History of Medicines CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Loca…
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January 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Still time to submit abstracts for Life Histories in Mind in Manchester in July. Keynote Prof Catharine Coleborne sshm.org/history-of-m...
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cfp Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester 21 July 2026 deadline 15 January royalhistsoc.org/calendar/lif...
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester Metropolitan University | Tuesday 21st July 2026 (Plus, a second reserve day of Wednesday 22nd July, subject to ...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
cfp Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester 21 July 2026 deadline 15 January royalhistsoc.org/calendar/lif...
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It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A League of Their Own: Halifax Hospital League of Friends
This article develops academic literature on the history of the Hospital League of Friends, using the Halifax League as a case study. The League of Friends of the Halifax Hospitals was one of the f...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
sshm.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
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I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Rob Ellis
Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page:
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
sshm.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
LD Club meets the Heritage Open Day at Pennine Heritage. Thanks to @mctom.bsky.social, Penny and the pottery team for a fun, interesting and inclusive session.
September 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
LD Club meets the Heritage Open Day at Pennine Heritage. Thanks to @mctom.bsky.social, Penny and the pottery team for a fun, interesting and inclusive session.
I’ve received another enquiry about the mental health resource kit developed with @suemoffat.bsky.social @nvborderlines.bsky.social. The ‘Bag of Tricks’ was such a great project but I had forgotten about the website we put together. An incentive to write this up! rflight7.wixsite.com/bagoftricks/...
BAG OF TRICKS | Bagoftricks
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September 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I’ve received another enquiry about the mental health resource kit developed with @suemoffat.bsky.social @nvborderlines.bsky.social. The ‘Bag of Tricks’ was such a great project but I had forgotten about the website we put together. An incentive to write this up! rflight7.wixsite.com/bagoftricks/...
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Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - ⏰ extended deadline 8 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
CFP - ⏰ extended deadline 8 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - ⏰ extended deadline 8 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
CFP - ⏰ extended deadline 8 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
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So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB
'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
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Drumroll please🥁🥁
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
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#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
(1/2)
#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Drumroll please🥁🥁
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
(1/2)
#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
(1/2)
#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
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🎉📚 Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by @rehistories.bsky.social
#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🎉📚 Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by @rehistories.bsky.social
#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
A bit more detail on ‘In Our Own Words’. Not really meant as a detailed academic contribution but it explains our rationale in aligning knowledge taken from the histories of LD with the needs of everyone involved. unipress.hud.ac.uk/news/163/
Author Spotlight - Rob Ellis discusses 'In Our Own Words'
In Our Own Words brings together a collection of essays from a group that became affectionately known as LD (Learning Disability) Club. The project arose from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership …
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July 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A bit more detail on ‘In Our Own Words’. Not really meant as a detailed academic contribution but it explains our rationale in aligning knowledge taken from the histories of LD with the needs of everyone involved. unipress.hud.ac.uk/news/163/
A public history project, a student project, and a co-produced LD project all rolled into one. Primarily a reminder for everyone involved but some insights into what worked for us and some of the ongoing challenges. unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/book...
In Our Own Words
unipress.hud.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A public history project, a student project, and a co-produced LD project all rolled into one. Primarily a reminder for everyone involved but some insights into what worked for us and some of the ongoing challenges. unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/book...
Reposted by Rob Ellis
Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers “Theories and Policies” Who Cares? 2026
“The Extraction of the Stone of Madness”, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1494, Museo del Prado Call for Papers – International conference Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world #2 Theories and P...
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June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
Some co-produced art from the final LD club of the year. Inspired by @ionamurphy.bsky.social and input from everyone inc @mctom.bsky.social and @lucyorkate.bsky.social. Might be of interest @roryduplessis.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Some co-produced art from the final LD club of the year. Inspired by @ionamurphy.bsky.social and input from everyone inc @mctom.bsky.social and @lucyorkate.bsky.social. Might be of interest @roryduplessis.bsky.social
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sshm.org/notices/
Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!
Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!
Notices
Vacancy: Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine Social History of Medicine (SHM) seeks a new co-editor to join Dr Elma Brenner (co-editor), Professor Flurin Condrau (co-editor), Dr Janet Greenlee…
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May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!
Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!
Exciting news from Jozefien, one of the Research Fellows on the Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health project. More to follow but I’m jealous of a trip that included the former asylum at Amiens.
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Exciting news from Jozefien, one of the Research Fellows on the Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health project. More to follow but I’m jealous of a trip that included the former asylum at Amiens.